Chemistry: Inquiring Minds Want to Know

Inquiry Task #1: For your grade / course, identify the "generic" inquiry-based skills you currently employ with your students.

Competencies:
Knowledge: demonstrate content knowledge covered in ChemistryScience Depth of Knowledge: Level1: Recall and Reproduction

Lab : Use the process of scientific methods to collect, organize, and analyze data, information, and observations to develop conclusions.Science Depth Of Knowledge: Level 2: Skills and Concepts and Level 3: Strategic Thinking
Inquiry Skills: Formulating Questions and Hypothesizing, Planning and Critiquing Investigations, Conducting Investigation and Evaluating Explanations

Problem Solving : Create and use models to evaluate and make predictions about systems.Science Depth Of Knowledge: Level 2: Skills and Concepts and Level 3: Strategic Thinking
Inquiry Skills: Formulating Questions and Hypothesizing, Planning and Critiquing Investigations, Conducting Investigation and Evaluating Explanations







Inquiry Task #2: List the units that currently are taught in which inquiry skills appear.

Physical/Chemical Properties
Electron Configuration
Light/ Frequency/ Wavelengths
Ionic/Covalent Bonding






























Inquiry Task #3: Brain-storm ideas for how your current units or activities can be made more inquiry-based.

http://www.education.nh.gov/instruction/assessment/necap/science.htm